Bagian Terkait Pengkhotbah 9:4

Rebbi Aḥa said, “Who is it that has been connected⁷¹Rebbi Aḥa explains the verse such as it is written, who is the one who is connected to God and the future world? Every human, as long as he is alive, has this possibility. The paragraph is inserted here because the verse was mentioned.?” Even those that stretched out their arms against the Sanctuary⁷²Tried to destroy the Temple or helped in destroying it. By necessity, these are Gentiles. have certitude. It is impossible to bring them near since they stretched out their arms against the Sanctuary. It is impossible to keep them far since they repented. On them it says (Jer. 51:39): “They will sleep eternal sleep and never awake.” The rabbis of Caesarea say, Gentile minors⁷³Who, as minors, are incapable of sin, but who, growing up as idolators, cannot have merit. [In Tosephta Sanhedrin 13:1, the opinion of Rabban Gamliel is quoted that children of (Jewish) evil doers (who die in infancy) have no part in the Future World, against the (prevailing) opinion of R. Joshua that all who die as children have part in the Future World, as it is written (Ps. 116:6): “The Eternal is the guardian of the simple ones.”] and the armies of Nebuchadnezzar⁷⁴Who destroyed the Temple but who, in contrast to the Romans, did not do so out of hatred of Jews and Judaism. In Tosephta Sanhedrin 13:5 it is said that “for those who stretched out their arms against the Sanctuary, the gates of hell will be locked and they will be punished there for all eternity.” It is explained here that this is valid only if they did not repent. will not live, but never will they be judged. On them Scripture says: “They will sleep eternal sleep, etc.”